San Antonio College Library

"A reference guide for amateur archaeologists, with emphasis on South Texas. The guide covers basic archaeology techniques, history and known sites of South Texas Indian tribes, locations and maps of prehistoric sites and artifact examples, with illustration."

Compelling images of people in a region that in many ways remains a frontier fill the pages of this handsome book. The photographs, most published for the first time, are from the top-ranked collection of the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas. They catch South Texans during more than a century and a half of formal and informal moments in studios, at home, at work and at play.

Mexican American Baseball in the Alamo Region celebrates the game as it was played in the Tejano and Tejana communities throughout Texas. This regional focus explores the importance of the game at a time when Spanish-speaking people were demanding cultural acceptance and their political and civil rights in cities like San Antonio, Corpus Christi, New Braunfels, San Diego, Kingsville, and Pleasanton. All had thriving Mexican American communities that...

Through letters written by one family in post-Reconstruction Texas, Myers shows what life was like in this part of the Old West, from a feminine perspective.